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Cheap broadband 'as big an achievement as railways'
News brought to you by Skint Tariffs, providers of cheap broadband deals.In a list of British engineering's greatest achievements, installing a super-fast cheap broadband system across the country would finish very close to the top.
That is the view of the British Computer Society (BCS), which has suggested that creating a new broadband infrastructure would rank alongside great feats like the railway network.
David Evans, government relations at the BCS, said the new technology could provide cheap broadband deals for many years to come.
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"It would be madness to speculate on bandwidth requirements in 100 years time, but it is at least conceivable that optical fibre from today could still be put to good use into the next century," he stated.
So it's perhaps apt to make comparisons, as people have done, between next-generation access from now and Victorian achievements such as national railway, sewage and telegraph infrastructure."
The BCS has more than 60,000 members around the globe, spread across over 100 countries.
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